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... it still stands there as a witness of the fast changing city. Then, I would make a trip to Kaiyuan Temple, which was built in 738. It contains the ancient collection of Buddhist's Holy Book and many other historical relic. Later, I would visit Chaozhou kiln. It was one of the biggest kilns in Tang and Song Dynasty. The porcelain made here was exported to many other countries. Han Shrine would be the next place that I visit. Han Yu was one of the greatest philosopher and ...

We celebrated Christmas in a new way. We made Udoun noodles for Christmas Eve dinner and went to a church here in our city. The church was packed-hundreds of people. We of course were the only foreigners and they spoke in the regional dialect for the entire service, but we are really glad we went. It was very interesting. They sing the same songs as us-just in Chinese. Everyone was so nice to ...

Hi Family and Friends, You might think we have stopped traveling for the last 6 weeks or so, but the truth is we just have not gone to too many new places. We have had a rather exciting past month though even still. We tried to lay low and conserve funds and energy in November-early December in preparation of family arrivals to visit in China! We experienced our first big American holiday abroad. This region does not have turkeys!! Even if we could buy a turkey-no ...

We went to Shantou for a short weekend. We landed here when we arrived to China, but did not have a chance to see any of the city. We were amazed at how large it really is. We tried to visit a local island, but after a long ferry ride and many locals trying to rip us off, we got back on the ferry ...